Dame Sarah Mullally has been named as the new Archbishop of Canterbury designate - the first woman to be chosen for the role.

A former NHS chief nurse, the 63-year-old became a priest in 2006 and was appointed as the first female Bishop of London in 2018 - the third most senior member of clergy in the Church of England.

It is the first time in nearly 500 years of history that the Church nominated a woman to lead it.

The Church has been without someone in the top job for almost a year after Justin Welby resigned over a safeguarding scandal.

Bishop Sarah was at one time Bishop of Crediton and in that role she conducted a Plough Sunday service at Christ Church